The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1887-10-19
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Before tho century is out it is esti-
mated that London viii have popu-
lation Of 1000 0o0
The Celtic language is spoken By
nearly 940, 600 people in Ireland, 81, 600
of whom can speak no other.
A Berlin company offers electrici-
ty for boiling water. and other heat
ing purposes. as we'll as for lighting.
No tomb in Europe or America,
present or probable to be, can match
that OF Napolen Bonaparte. = Gath
on The spot.
In the agricultural districts around
the city of Zacatecas laborer gets
373 cents daily. The hours OF labor
are from sunrise 10 sunset
Chill is likely to prove an impor-
tant source Of borax. Analyses made
by CHILEAN and English chemists indi-
cate that the crude borax Of that coun-
try can probably be made to yield as
good a product as the borax of Cali
fornia.-- + Ledqer
The extraordinary supply of grouse
In London on the first day the shoe t.
ing law was up is now accounted for
by the information that the grouse had
been kept for ten months in ice cellars
at temperature of % deg. They were
very much relished.
The recent discovery of several val
liable springs of different mineral wa
iers in Costa RIGA has caused the gov
ernment to issue decree declaring all
such to be the property of the State, and
ordering that in future none shall be
transferred to private ownership.
Young men clad in the garments
formerly worn by students have been
numerous in the streets of Osaka,
Japan, lately. They lecture in out-of-
the-way corners, and even in crowded
streets when no constables are at
hand, upon political subjects, and fire.
quently urge the doctrine that ''oiiicial
salaries are the life-blood of the peo-
pie. I"
An old Prussian law provides for
the annual distribution of prizes
amounting to fifteen and twenty
marks to such physicians and sanitary
officials as shall have attempted.
whether successfully or not, the re-
suscitation of apparently dead persons.
In the last four years eighty-five such
prizes were awarded, the number of
those cases in which the attempted
resuscitation was successful being
twenty-six.
The desert of Sahara is slowly be-
coming inhabitable with the aid of
science. The lower Sahara is an inn
mense basin of artesian waters. and
the French are forming fresh GASES
with skill and success, so that the
number of cultivated tracts is incrcas-
ing rapidly. After period OF thirty
years, forty-three GASES have Is. 600 in
habitants. 10000 trees between one
and seven years old, and 100, 900 fruit
trees.
The Prussian army list for 1887
contains field marshals, the Crown
Prince and Count Moltke; SO cavalry
and infantry generals, rs lieutenant
generals and III major generals.
The cavalry staff consists of 30
colonies, 38 observation-disclosures and
206 majors. and in the infantry staff
there are 161 colonies, 172 lieutenant
colonies and 700 majors. The number
of officers shows an increase of Sc as
compared with last year.
"A quaint old bridge has been found
in the River Glen at Spalding, Lincoln-
shire, where the river bed was being
deepened for the construction of q
new bridge. Local tradition declared
that bridge had existed there many
years back. and had been washed
away by storm, and now the lost
structure itself has been unearthed
five feet below the bed of the stream.
1t was chiefly constructed of carved
stones from the Spalding Monastery,
pulled down in 1887. and numbers of
carved coffin-lids and other relics were
lying close by.